And according to an investigation conducted by CNN In Hennepin County, Minnesota, the Minnesota Freedom Fund has bailed out at least 65 defendants who were awaiting trial on felony charges involving violence, physical threats or sex crimes. Similarly, In Indiana, of the roughly 1,000 defendants released on bail supplied by the bail project between 2019 and 2021, 24% had previously been charged with a crime of violence. and 35% were accused of felony charges and had a previous charge of at least one crime of violence. And because these funds are crowdsourced, there's no incentive for the defendants to show up for their court date. (03:07–03:21)
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Asserts that 24% of defendants bailed out by The Bail Project in Indiana had prior violent crime charges.
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